Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun commonwealth_of_nations

1 sense of commonwealth of nations

Sense 1
British Commonwealth, Commonwealth of Nations -- (an association of nations consisting of the United Kingdom and several former British colonies that are now sovereign states but still pay allegiance to the British Crown)
       => commonwealth -- (a world organization of autonomous states that are united in allegiance to a central power but are not subordinate to it or to one another)